<cfset destination = "#ExpandPath('uploads/')#">
<cfif not directoryExists(destination)>
<cfdirectory action="create" directory="#destination#">
</cfif>
<cffile action="upload" filefield="uploadfile"
destination="#destination#" nameConflict="makeUnique">
So here I use ExpandPath to find the directory that the current script
resides and set the destination directory to store uploaded content to
'uploads'. I then check to see if the destination directory exists,
if it doesn't I create it.
HTH
Simon
On 25 Jul 2008, at 23:21, Josh Nathanson wrote:
I think that the images directory has to exist already before you do the
CFFILE operation, in other words it won't create the directory for you.
-- Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fawzi Amadu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: CFFILE
> Thanks for the info> I changed my code as follows:
>
> CODE:
>
> <cffile action="upload"
> filefield="uploadProductIMAGE"
> destination="C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\e-Ghana\images\"
> nameconflict="makeunique">
>
> and I get the following error message:
>
>
>
> Attribute validation error for tag CFFILE.
> The value of the attribute destination, which is currently
> "C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\e-Ghana\images\", is invalid.
>
> The error occurred in C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\e-Ghana
> \testFileUpload.cfm:
> line 17
>
> 15 : filefield="uploadProductIMAGE"
> 16 : destination="C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\e-Ghana\images\"
> 17 : nameconflict="makeunique">
> 18 :
> 19 : <!--- make sure that file isn't more thatn 50k --->
>
>
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>
>> From livedocs:
>>
>> destination: Pathname of directory in which to upload the file. If
>> not
>> an absolute path (starting with a drive letter and a colon, or a
>> forward
>> or backward slash), it is relative to the ColdFusion temporary
>> directory, which is returned by the GetTempDirectory function.
>>
>>
>> I have up written code to upload a file for my computer, but I am
>> getting an error that I do not understand. I used
>> destination="../images/"with the intention of saving the file in the
>> images folder of root of my site. Please help, TIA
>>
>> CODE:
>>
>> <cffile action="upload"
>> filefield="uploadProductIMAGE"
>> destination="../images/"
>> nameconflict="makeunique">
>>
>>
>> ERROR MESSAGE:
>>
>> Attribute validation error for tag CFFILE.
>> The value of the attribute destination, which is currently "../
>> images/",
>> is invalid.
>>
>> The error occurred in C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\e-Ghana
>> \testFileUpload.cfm:
>> line 15
>>
>> 13 : filefield="uploadProductIMAGE"
>> 14 : destination="../images/"
>> 15 : nameconflict="makeunique">
>> 16 :
>> 17 : <!--- make sure that file isn't more thatn 50k --->
>
>
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